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Coles, John Morton, b. 1930 (European prehistorian, University of Cambridge)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: b. 1930

Biography

John Morton Coles, FBA, FSA was Professor of European Prehistory at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 1986 and has been a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, since 1963. He is married to the archaeologist Bryony Coles.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence, 1950 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1
Dates: 1950 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1979, 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to the dig, payments, lab reports, and more detailed budgets for grant reports. Applications and letters for further funding and grants due to Professor McBurney's ill health and eventual death, which is also related in the correspondence.

Dates: 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1980, 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/6
Scope and Contents

Correspondence including progress reports, application for funds and grants, the transfer of Charles McBurney's Haua Fteah finds, and other topics relating to the continuation of La Cotte digs after McBurney's death. Includes a request to Charles, Prince of Wales for funding, with response from secretary Edward Adeane.

Dates: 1980
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1981, 1981

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/7
Scope and Contents

Correspondence including details of research trip to France, British Museum enquiry after collected finds from La Cotte, the schedule of archaeological work, funding, and early negotiations to publish a volume about Professor McBurney's work.

Dates: 1981
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1982, 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/8
Scope and Contents

Correspondence includes documents regarding financing of remaining work and writing of the La Cotte volume, an export license for finds from Jersey, photograph from La Cotte, draft of Kate Scott's chapter of the La Cotte volume, research, progress reports, and a memorandum of agreement about the distribution of finds between the University of Cambridge Archaeology department, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Societe Jersiaise.

Dates: 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1983, 1983

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/9
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding the production of the La Cotte volume, finds analysis and allocation (including negotiations between the Societe Jersiaise, University of Cambridge, and British Museum), budgets and projects for future expenditures, and correspondence with SERC (Science and Engineering Research Council).

Dates: 1983
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1984, 1984

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between the La Cotte team and Academic Press Inc. over the proposed volume, discussions of display of the La Cotte finds and moving some of the material back to Jersey, disputes over various editions of the La Cotte manuscripts, and drafts of the book's Preface and Table of Contents.

Dates: 1984
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1985, 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/11
Scope and Contents Correspondence includes communications for SERC (Science and Engineering Research Council), discussions about the length and cost of the La Cotte volume, updates on the writing progress, and the move from a book contract with Academic Press Inc to Geo Books. In addition to correspondence about the La Cotte volume, Paul Callow's article "An Unlovely Child: The Problem of Unpublished Archaeological Research and John M. Coles's article in response, "Loved and Unloved Children" are included, as...
Dates: 1985
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1986, 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/12
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence regarding the death of John M. Coles's father and letters debating the inclusion of the forward for the La Cotte volume written by John M. Coles. Copies of the forward and the chapter "Pleistocene Chronostratigraphy" by Paul Callow.

Dates: 1986
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1987, 1987

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/13
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence related to celebrations of the La Cotte volume publication, discussions of where the La Cotte finds will be stored and reviews of the book.

Dates: 1987
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1988-1995, 1988 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/14
Scope and Contents

Copies of book reviews for the volume La Cotte de St. Brelade, 1961-1978, correspondence regarding an alleged incident at the University of Cambridge Archaeology department and other correspondence.

Dates: 1988 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Financial documents related to La Cotte dig, 1966 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/2
Scope and Contents

Financial documents, including personal receipts, tax forms, and budgets.

Dates: 1966 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Undated Correspondence and La Cotte pages, 1975 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9612/1/15
Scope and Contents

Mostly correspondence related to the production and writing of the La Cotte volume.

Dates: 1975 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).